Review by Nick Fuller
3/5
Fairly standard Christie, with a generic village setting, an old woman who dies a natural death (yellow atrophy of the liver) which may be murder, her various wills, her impoverished and unscrupulous relations; humour provided by her singularly irritating companion, who is not so much amusing as nauseating, and the ghastly spiritualist sisters who see the phosphorescent halo around the victim’s head on the night of her death. Poirot’s investigation consists of Leo Bruce interviewing, in the Q. and A. form; this dull method may explain the dullness of his wits in tumbling to the significance of the brooch. Although the murderer is poorly concealed, the method is very ingenious, but the ingenuity is rather negated by the murderer’s hammering a nail into the stairs outside an occupied room.
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